Thursday, December 15, 2011

Acme Bar & Coffee

Lifting off with leafy loveliness: Acme's "Dunkin' Salad" is a simple low-carb substitute for bread with olive oil. This dynamic duo of honey romaine with a lemony dressing whets the appetite without stuffing the stomach. But no double-dipping, please!

Our favorite recipe at Acme so far is the grilled watermelon salad, thanks to titanic chunks of tender poached crab flesh, the sweet umami kick of mirin soy mayo sauce & the nutty crunch of toasted almonds. If we could order only one thing here, this is it.

Deep-fried cheese raclette, wine-poached pears & green apples. Another fun creation, with the juicy crispness of the fruits mingling well with the creaminess of the salty cheese.

A tale of two soups: black & white onion ones, bridged with a cheese stick. Visually intriguing; both onion-based, but they taste worlds apart _ the beefy black is the robust French version with caramelized onions, while the white evokes a milky Irish recipe.

Mushroom soup of morels, rice wine, ginger & man tao pua croutons. Could mushroom soup be richer or more luscious? One of the most satisfying ones we've had this year.

Acme's upper-level loft is perfect for private functions, less boisterous than the outlet's main hall.

Acme Bar & Coffee,

ABC @ The Troika, Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 03-2162-2288

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25 comments:

Baby Sumo: oh yeah, the salad's amazing! the watermelon is juicy but with an interesting smokiness from being grilled, and there's so much succulent crab meat in each serving. it's almost like they killed two whole meaty crabs for that amount of flesh! heheh, yeah, the pasta paled in comparison... :D

Rad: yaa, this is a feast for both the eyes & the mouth! i think i've managed to try 70 percent of the menu here so far, but there's still another 30 percent to go! :DUlric: yeah, there's definitely a lot of extra thought put into the recipes here! no old-fashioned basic caesar salads or plain mushroom soups! =)

CK: heheh, ya, i think the watermelon-crab salad would be everyone's favorite! my friends enjoy that one the most too! :DAugustdiners: it's unanimous! all hail the watermelon-crab salad! wonder if other restaurants will start doing their own version =)Dropsofcontentment: heheh, i'm not really a fan of stingray, but it was interesting to have it here! and it seemed meatier than the ikan bakar versions too! :D